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Stocks to avoid: Motley Fool says stay away from WaMu, Ambac, Pulte
May 05, 2008 05:29 PM UTC

Eliza Popescu

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Symbol	Sentiment	Start	Return	Closed
WM		05/05/08	+172.30%	--
CI		05/05/08	-26.63%	--
HUM		05/05/08	-16.54%	--
CME		05/05/08	-37.68%	--
PHM		05/05/08	-33.43%	--
ABK		05/05/08	-75.86%	--

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Filed under: Forecasts, CIGNA Corp (CI), Washington Mutual (WM), Economic data, Stocks to Buy, Recession

It has been a tough year for investors. We have been dealing with recession fears, housing market worries, high gasoline prices and a very weak U.S dollar. As much as we would love to say that the worst is behind us, we still could be in for some more rocky times ahead. So its best to try to figure out which stocks would be best to avoid for the time being.

Richard Gibbons wrote up a nice piece over on The Motley Fool that looks at some of the stocks that we would be wise to stay away from at this time. Regardless good or bad times, he is convinced there are always ways to make money, but in order to find the winners, it is also necessary to pull out the losers.

So how can we separate out the winners from the losers?

Gibbons seems to have a simple answer for this. He believes there is really no use in wasting our time trying to separate the winners from the losers as there are so many great cheap stocks that could offer us a chance to make money. Gibbons' advice is to not choose ugly and risky companies that could put our hard earned money at risk. To makes this clear, he uses a baseball analogy, expressing his options for the curve balls instead of the fastballs.

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